Collar-hook.



W. A. HAYDEN.

w COLLAR HOOK.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG.'4, 1911.

1,085,735. Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. D. G.

UNITED STATES PATENT WILLARD A. HAYDEN, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN R. GORDON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

COLLAR-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 4, 1911.

Patented Feb. 3,1914. Serial No. 642,325.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD A. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Collar-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a collar attaching device, and more particularly to the class of hooks for attaching collars to the bands of shirts.

The primary object of the inventlon s the provision of a hook of this character 1n which the collar button of the ordinary construction will be entirely dispensed with, and that will permit the collar to automatically adjust itself to the neck of the wearer, without possibility of the said collar riding above the neck band, when attached to the latter.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a hook of this character which will not injure the neck of the wearer when the collar is attached to the neck band of a shirt, and that will hold the collar in proper position upon the neck band, and at the same time will permit the tie to be drawn between the folds of the collar, without binding therebetween.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a hook of this character which is simple in construction, thoroughly efiicient in its purpose, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illus trated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

Inthe drawings: Figure l is a fragmentary perspective viewof a collar, showing the hook applied thereto and ready to be attached to the neck band ofa shirt. Fig. 2 is a similar View, showing the collar applied to the neck band of a shirt, the neck band being partly broken away. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the hook removed from the collar and shirt band. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the collar hook and neck band. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary rear elevation of the collar with the hook applied theretoand a portion of said collar broken away.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts through the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 5 designates a turn-over collar of the usual well-known construction, the same being provided, medially of its length, in one fold thereof, with a suitable eyelet or button hole 6, in which is adapted to be inserted the hook, presently described. The collar may be any other style, ordinarily used and is adapted to be mounted about the neck band 7 of a shirt, as usual, and is fastened thereto by means of the hook, comprising a single strand of relatively stifi' wire, bent into substantially inverted W-shape, the ends 8 of the wire being brought into close parallel relation to each other, and are inturned, as at 9, at their extremities, while the remaining portion of the wire provides two loops 10 which lie in the same plane with each other and extend downwardly into converging relation to each other, the loops being joined by means of two upwardly and outwardly diverging side members 10 connected at their upper extremities by means of a horizontal cross bar 11, said cross bar being positioned above and in spaced relation with the uppermost portions of the loops 10, and the said bar adapted to snugly engage with the underneath'portion of the top edge of neck band thereby conveniently positioning the members 8 for application to the bottom hole of the collar.

In the application of the hook, the ends 8 are inserted through the button hole 6 in the collar 5, so that the two loops 10 will extend downwardly and lie exteriorly of the inner face of the inner fold of the collar, so that the outer ply of the neck band 7 may be engaged by the hook, as shown in Fig. 4:, without requiring the use of an ordinary collar button. Thus, it will be seen that the collar may automatically adjust itself to the neck band, but will be prevented from overriding the same when worn.

. What is claimed is: A device of the kind described comprising a resilient wire member, said resilient wire member being composed of an inverted U-shaped member, two obliquely and outwardly extending loops formed terminally upon the legs of said U-shaped member, two abutting stems arranged substantially at right angles to the axis of the cross-piece and extending below and in spaced relation to said loops, oppositely arranged legs mergshaped member, legs and stems being spaced ing with said loops and being looped intransversely, 10 tegrally with said stems, said last-named In testimony whereof I afiix my signaloops being obliquely and outwardly disture in presence of two witnesses.

posed relatively to said legs and being ar- WILLARD Al HAYDEN. ranged on a lower plane than the cross-piece \Vitnesses: of said U-shaped member, and inturned HAZEL I-IUENERLOTH, terminals formed upon said stems, said U- J. M. TOTTON.

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